Sunset light hitting a playground structure. I actually like my edit and made a small print which came out nicely. It reflects what I saw in that moment. But I wonder how else the light and overall image could be graded.
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Here is my attempt, not that it does anything any better than yours. dt 4.8.1
New to DT 4.9 is darktable camera styles and I selected the one which matched the model of Sony camera used here and the only additional tweak I did was to apply some darkening of the highlights using the shadow and highlights module.
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I appreciate the effort put in by the contributor because I know some people struggle to find a good starting point. I was surprised how good a starting point it gave for some of my Canon R7 images.
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Color graded a la cinema Orange and Teal (converted to grayscale plus threshold mask, duo-toned in the GIMP):
